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If you saw a monitor in dirt....
You would never wish any other trash and recycled crap on them. Ive switched substrates over many years, and tried top soil from a home improvement ware house (junk), then did what I wanted to for a while switched to creek bank dirt (strained), dirt from the forest nearby(strained), with a small percentage of fine grain sand and 12-15 trips, and days of work later its 1.5ft deep in my large albigs cage. I use the same dirt with my ackie, my smaller albig, and my fiacees bearded dragon, they all love it and use it most importantly. Monitors need dirt for many reasons, a place to hide, source of humidity, and you can see it in them a source of something normal. Sand is for beaches, glass, etc, not for monitors, after all if you research where any monitors come from you will see that even V.griseus lives in a dirt sand mixture. Bosc monitors are a semi arid grassland monitor that lives in farmers fields to eat crickets and other voracious insects, sand dries them out, doesnt hold a burrow, and drains all water straight through it.
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